1. The Muses are______deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
(A) rueful
(B) ingenuous
(C) solicitous
(D) vindictive
(E) dispassionate
2. Sponsors of the bill were______because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law.
(A) unreliable
(B) well-intentioned
(C) persistent
(D) relieved
(E) detained
3. Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle,” but is ______construction.
(A) a complicated
(B) a convoluted
(C) a distorted
(D) an amorphous
(E) an illusory
4. We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless surprised at his______.
(A) naivete
(B) obstinateness
(C) decisiveness
(D) ingeniousness
(E) resolve
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5. A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist’s subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling______the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
(A) facilitates
(B) averts
(C) neutralizes
(D) implies
(E) represses
6. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been______by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy’s underlying assumptions.
(A) supplemented
(B) undermined
(C) wasted
(D) diverted
(E) redeemed
7. The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were_______ their few and simple desires.
(A) simultaneous with
(B) commensurate with
(C) substantiated by
(D) circumscribed by
(E) ruined by
8. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
(A) connoisseur
(B) critic
(C) friend
(D) scourge
(E) judge
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9. Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in______ and production costs.
(A) distribution
(B) salvage
(C) storage
(D) procurement
(E) research
10. Cezanne’s delicate watercolor sketches often served as______of a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist’s final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.
(A) an abstraction
(B) an enhancement
(C) a synthesis
(D) a reconnaissance
(E) a transcription
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参考答案
EXE4 D D A A A B B C D D